My wife, Julie, recently created a work of art that incorporated the Picasso line drawings of doves.

You may be interested to check out Julie's www.ScottsdaleDailyPhoto.com website today. Yesterday and today she showed a French Merci Train car sent by the people of France to each state in the USA in 1949 to thank the USA for assistance to post-war France.

Love this. You must come down when the new Cocteau museum opens in Menton - apparently in November. Come and stay. Massive modern structure in front of the market. An American who had the biggest collection of Cocteau in the world has donated it to Menton, hence the museum. The current museum, the Bastion, will remain and of course there is Cocteau's wedding chapel.

After six years in Australia and five years of city life in Avignon I moved to the countryside near the small village of Beaumes-de-Venise. Once dedicated to street photography my blog has since taken a more rural note but the beautiful region of Provence is an constant source of inspiration.